White Supremacist Ideology and Segregationist Frames in Cold War Context
Location
GC140, Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Florida International University
Start Date
4-3-2016 2:00 PM
End Date
4-3-2016 2:15 PM
Abstract
This paper examines how segregationists fused traditional frame arguments with Cold War geopolitics to defend the South’s racial hierarchy and white supremacist ideology. For social movements, ideology’s power is its capacity to weave seemingly disparate cultural perspectives of deep historical roots together with more contemporary concerns and reorient them into a web of frame arguments serving the core logic for collective action. As the intellectual architecture of a movement’s cosmology, the frame constellation is the entire interlocking web of frames as defined by core ideology. Its structure is comprised of multiple frame clusters that are regional assemblages in the constellation of frames organized around a central subject as related to the movement’s ideological nucleus. Within frame clusters are frame sub-clusters, which are relatively smaller numbers of tightly interconnected frame arguments structuring the larger frame cluster theme as related to movement ideology. Frame arguments then, are basic units of a movement’s ideological thrust. In this research white supremacist ideology functions as the gravitational center around which all thematic arguments orbit in the segregationist frame constellation; a dynamism characterized by interrelated, overlapping and intersecting notions which operate for the singular purpose of defending the segregationist vision of the cosmos.
White Supremacist Ideology and Segregationist Frames in Cold War Context
White Supremacist Ideology and Segregationist Frames in Cold War Context
GC140, Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Florida International University
This paper examines how segregationists fused traditional frame arguments with Cold War geopolitics to defend the South’s racial hierarchy and white supremacist ideology. For social movements, ideology’s power is its capacity to weave seemingly disparate cultural perspectives of deep historical roots together with more contemporary concerns and reorient them into a web of frame arguments serving the core logic for collective action. As the intellectual architecture of a movement’s cosmology, the frame constellation is the entire interlocking web of frames as defined by core ideology. Its structure is comprised of multiple frame clusters that are regional assemblages in the constellation of frames organized around a central subject as related to the movement’s ideological nucleus. Within frame clusters are frame sub-clusters, which are relatively smaller numbers of tightly interconnected frame arguments structuring the larger frame cluster theme as related to movement ideology. Frame arguments then, are basic units of a movement’s ideological thrust. In this research white supremacist ideology functions as the gravitational center around which all thematic arguments orbit in the segregationist frame constellation; a dynamism characterized by interrelated, overlapping and intersecting notions which operate for the singular purpose of defending the segregationist vision of the cosmos.